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So is it going to dry up by july? Water graph looks prety !!! [frown] [mad]
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It's looking bleak indeed!
I've heard that they're rationing the irrigation water, cutting the farmers' supply by something like 25% per acre, and they still expect to run out before harvest time.
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We get our water from their and we were allotted only 2/3s of last years water.
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Wonder if Callen's motorhome will make it up that ramp? Fishing should be fabulous.
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Nobody. Has really stated weather or not they have fished it!! Well?
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[quote armyNGfisherman]Nobody. Has really stated weather or not they have fished it!! Well?[/quote]
The weather has been super goofy, I'm holding off till things level out some.

I was planning on going this week, but decided to wait. I'll post up whenever I do get up there, hopefully within the next 2 weeks.
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Any word for on the catching yet? Fishing is probably good!
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Haven't been able to get up there yet. I'm shooting for tuesday though!
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Seems like we have had 7 days of nothing but wind here in Twin Falls. Makes for no good catching....
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Yeah this weather has made it hard to plan a day to go LoL! I have high hopes for next week. This weekend doesn't look bad, but I stay away from the high profile places on the weekends, I'm not into the "shoulder-to-shoulder" style of fishing.
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Just wear a pistol and talk and argue with yourself. Most people wont get very close then. . Lol
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So... .in other words, just be myself?

Will do!
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So you were that other guy doing that...
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PTSD. That's normal behavior for me.
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if anyone goes to owyhee, can you post pictures of how low it is and maybe give a report?
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[quote armyNGfisherman]if anyone goes to owyhee, can you post pictures of how low it is and maybe give a report?[/quote]

Will do. But my trip got pushed back from tomorrow to thursday.
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According to this site [url "http://www.usbr.gov/pn/hydromet/ramps/owyhee/owyhee.html"]http://www.usbr.gov/pn/hydromet/ramps/owyhee/owyhee.html[/url] Owyhee is down 41 feet. Gordon Gulch, the day use ramp, is still 17' to the good.
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Fished it yesterday, wasn't worth the gass going there. Poor, went to Leslie Gulch, very few fish on FF and what we seen were at 20 feet Fishing crappie
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Not what I wanted to hear but thank you for saving me the gas.
That's what I love about this site.
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Well I made it up to Owyhee, finally.
A bit of a fiasco though. I picked up my "day pass" for Oregon F&G Wednesday. Didn't notice they set it for wednesday instead of thursday, even after I told her Thursday twice, and confirmed thursday would be the 6th.

I went up and found a nice little cove on the river at 6am, plenty of nice browns working the topwater.
Grabbed my flypole, practiced untangling it from the weeds for a couple of hours. Then I grabbed my spinner, with my nice big Mepps red&white spinner. Slapped on a white minnow trailer, and bam, first cast, one almost tore of the minnow. Second cast, rock claimed my spinner. My only red & white spinner. They didn't like anything else I tried, and I tried my whole tacklebox.
So... Run up to the lake, switch everything over to the pontoon boat. Pull my lisc out of my wallet so I could leave my wallet in the truck. THAT is when I noticed the date. Back down to Owyhee store I go, to get a current lisc.
Back to the lake. As I'm launching I see a bunch of trout trolling the ramp, but a couple boats pull in right after me. So, I move off, to let them do their thing. Then some teen (who I suspect was only about 50% coherent, and maybe 75% mobile), stomps up and down the dock, yelling at the fish and throwing rocks at them. Then he jumps in and tries to swim with them.
So I move off even farther. Now the wind picks up, so I'm kicking constantly just to stay still. My anchor wouldn't reach.
I managed to locate a school of smallies. SMALL smallies. Same for the crappie. I caught quite a few fish, some even fought a bit. But non were over 6 inches. I glanced over, the kid is looks to be bathing himself by the dock. About this time I also notice that I'm bright red, in spite of my tan. Forgot the sunblock in the truck. Ugh.
So, back to the dock. Figured I'd try the river again after I load up on sunblock & snacks.
The river was PACKED with people! Ankle deep, waving flyrods. It's thursday, right??
And of course this reminded me of my morning adventure with the weed patch. So, I decided to pack it in for the day.
Got home, and my neighbors were loading up to hit the bass pond. So I ditched the pontoon, grabbed a sandwich and headed on down. Caught a few, but nothing exciting there either.

Don't get me wrong, it was a beautiful day. I just wish I hadn't bothered buying a fishing lisence for Oregon. Twice.

I talked to a few boaters at Owyhee, who all seemed to have the same luck as I did. Few, far between, and small.
(And yes, the boat launch is still in the water)

EDIT: And for some reason I can't do inline pics, LoL
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